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TIL Bananas emit antimatter almost every 75 minutes
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TIL Martha Stewart once dated Anthony Hopkins, but broke it off because she couldn’t get it out of her head that he was Hannibal Lector. Verified by her in a NPR: Wait Wait interview
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TIL that one company, IAC/InterActiveCorp, has spun off the Home Shopping Network and Ticketmaster, aqcuired About.com, and currently owns 150 online services such as Ask.com, Match.com, OkCupid, CollegeHumor, Vimeo, Newsweek, The Daily Beast and Thesaurus.com.
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TIL that Karen Carpenter died on the same day that her divorce was supposed to be finalized. At her funeral her husband took off his wedding ring and threw it into her casket.
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TIL that Pearson (a London textbook company) makes $90 million per year to make the state of Texas standardized test (this does not include profit from textbook sales). Every few years they change the contents of the test so that school are forced to buy new books for the new curriculum.
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TIL of the "Vitamin D Paradox" among black people. Researchers couldn't understand why black folks had better bone health while 80% were chronically Vit D deficient. They discovered black folks make less of a protein which interferes with Vit D. They have less overall but use it more efficiently.